Supporting bracket



July 21, 1936. c, EL 2,048,430

SUPPORTING BRACKET Filed Sept. 13, 1934 Invenlof al /[575? ('orreZZo Q By M 4015M M g a Altorneys Patented July 21 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a supporting bracket which is mainly designed to be used for supporting paint buckets from a ladder and which can also be used for supporting other objects and on other devices besides a ladder.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:-

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevational view of a ladder showing a pair of the brackets supporting two buckets.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the brackets.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side elevational view of a ladder showing one of the brackets supporting a bucket.

In this drawing, the device is shown at A and comprises a rod I having one end bent to provide an open coiled eye 2 and its other end bent at right angles as shown at 3 with the extremity at this end pointed and bent at right angles as shown at 4. A short rod 5 is welded or otherwise fastened to an intermediate part of the rod I and parallel to the part 3, these parts 3 and 5 being adapted to engage the side faces of one upright B of a ladder with the pointed part 4 penetrating the upright as shown in Figure 2.

Thus it will be seen that the device is firmly fastened to the ladder and will support a paint bucket or the like, the bail 6 of which is placed in the eye as shown in Figures 1 and 3.

This device will hold the paint bucket at one side of the ladder so that there is less danger of the paint getting on the rungs of the ladder as there is when the bucket is suspended from one of the rungs as is the usual practice, the paint from 5 the rungs getting on the shoes and hands, of the user. The device can be used at either side of the ladder as desired and it will hold the bucket in a position where the brush can be readily placed in the same even when painting in close 10 places. When the device is used at one side of a ladder, the coil extends upwardly and when used at the opposite side, the coil extends downwardly, so that it is simply necessary to reverse the device when changing from one side to the opposite side of a ladder.

This bracket can also be used in other situations besides on a ladder.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed is:--

A supporting bracket of the class described comprising an elongated straight rod having one end bent to provide an open coil and its other end bent at right angles to provide an objectengaging part, the extremity of said part being bent at right angles and substantially parallel to the rod and pointed for penetrating an object, a short rod fastened to an intermediate part of the long rod and paralleling the right angularly bent part, said short rod forming a second object-engaging part.

CHESTER CORRELLO. 

